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If corporations are "people" then why don't they pay taxes like PEOPLE? (Original Post)
Triana
Nov 2013
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dchill
(38,484 posts)1. They do...
They pay taxes like rich people.
Theyletmeeatcake2
(348 posts)7. Spot on !!!!
I wish I'd said that!!
dchill
(38,484 posts)9. Thank you. Thank you very much.
procon
(15,805 posts)2. If corporations were like real people
they'd go to the equivalent of jail for breaking the law just like real people.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)3. All people are equal, but some people are more equal than other people. NT
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)4. They're the 1%er type people.
Like Leona Helmsley said ... only the little people pay taxes.
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)5. Intentionally misleading
This ignores the advent and proliferation of LLC's and S-Corps.
Skeeter Barnes
(994 posts)6. Because corporations own and operate both parties?
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)8. As I've heard it said before, I'll believe a corporation is a person when
they execute one in Texas.
indepat
(20,899 posts)10. Illustrates the enormity of the fuc*ing over our government has given people people and
the exalted and preferential status it has bestowed upon corporate people. The graph depicts an unparalleled travesty in generational mal-governance and misfeasance for all to see: a 9% approval rating for the Congress is generous to a fault.